MISFORTUNES OF BUTCHER.
AN EXTRAORDINARY STORY.. MARRIAGES AND BANKRUPTCIES. [BY TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.] CHRISTCHURCH. Friday. Married three times, bankrupt three times, and now working temporarily as a shop assistant, James Taylor, butcher, of Papanui Road, Christchurcli, had an extraordinary story of misfortune to tell his creditors.
Taylor's papers, produced for the information of the official assignee, consisted of a mass of receipts forced into a sack. The deficiency was £620. Taylor said ho suffered £2OO loss from a motor accident and £l5O from a fire, as well as heavy bills from the illnesses of his first, and second wives. The assignee remarked that bankrupt's business had been bled by strange payments. He did not think be would get more credit. The meeting was adjourned.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20252, 11 May 1929, Page 13
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123MISFORTUNES OF BUTCHER. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20252, 11 May 1929, Page 13
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